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Meditation, Saṃsāra, and Confession: Fragments of Old Uyghur Text on Various Issues
İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi, 2022 Although the development of Buddhism among Turks occurred in the Western Uyghur Khanate, Turks’ first encounter with Buddhism is thought to date back much earlier.
Uğur Uzunkaya
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Words Denoting the Sky in Mongolic Languages: Etymology and Semantics
Oriental Studies, 2022 Introduction. The articles examines etymologies and semantics of Mongolic words denoting the sky. The system of astronomical terms in Mongolic languages is structurally complicated due to multiple layers of pre-Buddhist, Buddhist and other beliefs ...
Anna V. Dybo +5 more
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Sūtra of Eight Khulils: Analyzing One Manuscript from Aldan-Maadyr National Museum of Tuva
Oriental Studies, 2021 The article aims to introduce a manuscript of the “Sūtra of Eight Khulils” in Mongolian, part of the collection in Aldan-Maadyr National Museum of the Tuva Republic. The idea of eight khulils, or eight trigrams, which symbolize eight great elements (fire,
Saglara V. Mirzaeva
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Religions, 2023 In an era marked by the advent of advanced printing technology during the Northern Song period, the tradition of transcribing the Buddhist canon endured rather than promptly fading away.
Yuyu Zhang
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The Chinese Equivalent and Transition of Gatha in the Chinese Buddhist Canon
JOURNAL OF INDIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES (INDOGAKU BUKKYOGAKU KENKYU), 2005 An Shigao of the Parthian Empire arrived at Luoyang in the Late Han Dynasty, and initiated translation of Buddhist texts into Chinese. Because he was a first translator, he experienced various difficulties with respect to selection of appropriate vocabulary and idiom.
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Religions, 2022 From the Tang era (618–907) to the present day, controversy over the translation and authenticity of the Chinese version of the Śūraṃgama-sūtra, which appeared at the end of the early Tang, has been ongoing. The scholar-official Fang Rong (d.
Jinhua Jia
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Foshuo 佛説 (spoken by the Buddha) in the title of Some Chinese Buddhist Scriptures
, 2021 To anyone familiar with Chinese Buddhist texts, it is common knowledge that the title of some Chinese Buddhist sutra scriptures begins with the phrase of foshuo佛説 (‘spoken by the Buddha’ or ‘expounded by the Buddha’), a phrase literally emphasizing that ...
Pu, C
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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Nierozróżniający wgląd w medytacji buddyzmu chan i jego wczesnobuddyjskie analogie
Argument, 2017 Undifferentiating insight in the Chan Buddhist meditation and its early Buddhist analogies: In the paper a comparative analysis of Chan Buddhist meditation and the early Buddhist meditation has been conducted.
Kamil NOWAK
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